Date: 8/14/12 3:11 am
From: Mikey Lutmerding <mlutmerding...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Point Lookout State Park, Sunday 12 August


Hi Everyone,

I had a great morning at Point Lookout State Park on Sunday with my first
big push of migrants. In checking the raw nexrad radar before I left, it
looked like there was a decent movement of birds on the Western Shore and
virtually no movement on the Eastern Shore, it was nice to be able to
"ground truth" this since there were folks birding Bayside on Assateague,
if anyone is interested in the link to the radar, please let me know I
would be happy to send it. When I first stepped out of the car at Point
Lookout, I heard warblers calling from a waterbush at the point, I went to
check it out and was excited to see 4 YELLOW WARBLERs with a single
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER, by the end of the morning I had tallied 11 species of
warblers including both LOUISIANA and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, CHESTNUT-SIDED
WARBLER, WORM-EATING WARBLER, and good numbers of BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
and AMERICAN REDSTART. At the picinic area parking lot there was a WILLOW
FLYCATCHER that was giving whit notes from the scrubby area north of the
pond. As I was entering the woods north of the picnic area, I heard a
vaguely familiar call overhead, I ran back out and saw a winter/juv BLACK
TERN (that was calling) trailing two COMMON TERNs, also notable were two
SANDWICH TERNs around the point. A great morning!

A few photos from the morning:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/

Point Lookout State Park checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S11339156

Good Birding!

Mikey

Mikey Lutmerding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeycerw/
Croom, MD

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